The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

My own heart is in my characters. My novels are my memories

Everyday's a honeymoon. Cuz darling, I love you to the moon.

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant